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Even if it leads you to the right conclusion, the intuition is a bit off: when something floats or sinks, it is floating or sinking in a medium. In the vacuum of space, there is no such tendency: all mass exerts an attractive force on other mass.

(however I have no idea how/why the mass segregation happens in this instance)




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